Vanity case



W. H. ROYSTONE VANITY CASE April 21, 1 925. 1,534,872

Filed Dec. 29, 1922 v INVENTOR W'lb'anrfl Ray-91105 8 ATTORNEYS Patented Apr. 21, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. ROYSTONE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

VANITY CASE.

Application filed December 29, 1922. Serial No. 609,577.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HERBERT RoYs'roNn, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, county and State of New York, have inventednew and useful Improvements in Vanity Cases, of which the tollowingis a specification.

This invention relates to vanity cases and is more particularly directed toward the small cases in which cosmetics, such as face powder and/ or rouge are carried. These vanity cases are carried in pocketbooks, hand bags, or the like, where unlimited space is not available. They must be designed so as not to be cumbersome, and yet they should provide the user with an adequate quantity of powder or rouge, while occupying the minimum space.

An object of the present invention is to provide a vanity case in which a supply of both face powder and of rouge are available to the user, and, preferably one in which the supply of either may be replenished or changed at will without discarding or losing the supply of the other which may not have been exhausted.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a vanity case wherein loose powder can be conveniently used, and the supply readily replenished. This permits the user to select any powder she may desire touse, or to change it at any time.

Another object of the invention is to provide a vanity case in which the bottom of the receptacle is given a configuration so that a cover member outside the bottom of the receptacle may be provided with means for carrying a rouge compact and a rouge puff, both the latter being disposed within the bottom of the powder receptacle.

Another object of the invention is to provide an improved arrangement for hinging a vanity case.

Another object ot the invention is to provide a vanity case adaptable for loose powder and for a rouge compact, the parts being so disposed that a single mirror may be used at all times.

Other objects of the invention will be apparent as the description proceeds.

The accompanying drawings show for purposes of illustration one of the many possible embodiments in which the present invention may take form.

In these drawings:

' Fig. 1 is a sectional view of a vanity case; and

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the vanity case with the cover section removed.

A sheet metal stamping 10 is open at thetop 11 and is closed at the bottom 12. The closed bottom is concave from underneath. In the form shown, a portion of the cross section is in the form of a reverse curve 13 and the central portion 14 is flat and spaced a considerable distance above the bottom of the stamping. This stamping provides a receptacle for containing loose powder which receptacle is open at the top.

The top of the receptacle is closed by a sitter cover 15 having perforations 16 arranged inside a raised bead 17, so that the central part of the top of the sitter cover 15 is in the form of a grille. This sitter cover has downwardly depending flange 18 adapted to slidably fit inside the inner wall of the receptacle and to extend to the bottom of the receptacle. This sitter t-op fits loosely so that it may be removed by inserting the finger nails in the perforations 16. hen the sitter top is removed, the user may fill the receptacle with a quantity of face powder of the kind suiting the fancy and the sitter top returned to place.

A port-ion 19 of the wall of the powder receptacle is struck out and bent about as indicated in the drawing to provide a ring to hold a hinge pin 20. The slit 19 formed in the wall of the powder receptacle is closed by the wall 18 ot the sitter top, and hence escape of powder through the hinge is prevented. A cover 21 having a mirror 22 is fastened on the hinged pin 20 and is adapted to close down to cover the powder receptacle, abutting against a bead 23 appropriately located in the stamping 10. A powder puff 24 is held against a perforated. sitter top 15 and the bead 16 prevents the escape of loose powder when the cover is closed.

A. second cover 26 is hinged to the hinge pin 20, this cover being arranged to go underneath the stamping 10 and to abut against the head 23 from the other side. This cover is provided with a reducing ring 27 having a portion 28, which has a configuration to fit inside the curved portion 13 of the bot tom of the powder receptacle and an inwardly bent wall 29 which engages the inner surface of the cover 26. The bottom of this cover, the walls 29 and the portion 14 ot the 110 recess in the closed end of the ring to ac-i 1 side the raised bottom when the cover is "closed;

bottom of the powder receptacle form a recess or compartment adapted to containa rouge compact 30, which my be held in place by friction and a rouge put? 31 accommodated between the top of the rouge cake and the portion 14:.

It will be noted that accordingto the ease: in accordance. with the present disclosure and have it thin and yet provide an adequate quantity of rouge or face powder,

either of which is readily accessible and easily replaceable and the user can select the red make of face powder or rouge" without being held to any particular riia-he or in miniature Wliat I claim is:

1. In a vanitj case, a powder receptacle apaat the top andhaving a downwardly open recess inthe bottom, cover for the bottom, "a reducing ring in the cover, the space provided by the inside of the reducing ring and b the recess n vi-ding accommodations fbr a rouge compact and a rouge uif. H 2'. A vanity ca'se having a ring with a "tic-sad end, a cover for the closed era of the this, a reducing" ring in the cover, and a centimetre the reducing ring.

3. A vanity case having a cover, areducing ring iiisidfle the cover, a rouge "compact in the reducing ring, a uff above the rouge @bihpacranu a receptacle for loose powder, the receptacle being abovethe p'ufi anaemare reducing ring", the *over being dispo's'ed outside the receptacle.

4. A vanity case having a powder receptacle with a closed bottom concave iron] un- "dei' fieath, "a hinged cover? fdr the closed bot tom, a rouge compact carried inside the cover, a rouge puff, the compact and puff bedispose'd space between the cenfor a rouge c p thbottbm of the cep'tacle having a downwardly opening re- Less, a rouge compact carried in the compartment and movable iiito and out of the recess, and a rouge phfl interposed between the rouge compact and the recess.

7. In vanity cases, a compartment for a iro'uge cake and rouge puff, the top of the compartment being the upwardly raised central portion of the bottom of a powder receptacle, the walls of the compartment being a reducing-wing, and the bottom of thecoinpartinent being a cover, the reducing ring being inside the cover and also in- 8. A vanity case having 'a receptacle for powder and a receptacle for rouge, both receptacles opening in the same direction, a

part of the powder receptacle being about the periphery of the rouge receptacle. WILLIAM H. ROYSTONE. 

